Legal Opinion
Norman Timberlake v. Cecil Davis, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 27, 2005No. 04-2315PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Norman Timberlake and Tommy McEl-roy stopped their car and proceeded to urinate by the side of a highway. A state trooper arrived and learned that McElroy was a fugitive. While trooper Greene was taking McElroy into custody, Timberlake shot and killed Greene. A jury convicted Timberlake of murder and unanimously recommended that he be sentenced to death on the basis of a statutory aggravating factor: the victim was a police officer acting in the line of duty. Ind.Code § 35-50-2-9(b)(6). The judge imposed the recommended sentence. The Supreme Court of Indiana…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by22 opinions
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